[Edu-sig] Re: [Tutor] How to deal with strange errors?

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

[Danny Yoo]
> > 3. Is it possible to rebind input() to it's original built-in function
> >    without restarting the whole machinery.
> 
> Although 'input' in the global environment is bound to that string now,
> it's still possible to fix this by going through the __builtin__ module
> and refix things:
> 
> ###
> >>> input = 'argh'
> >>> input
> 'argh'
> >>> from __builtin__ import *
> >>> input
> <built-in function input>
> ###
> 
> That's probably one way of doing it.

Here is another:

>>> input = 'blah'
>>> input
'blah'
>>> input = __builtins__['input']  # Note the trailing 's'
>>> input
<built-in function input>
>>> 

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech